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No.4.53, 112. Patented May26,1891.

NITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

MACHINE FOR MOlSTENING POSTAGE-STAMPS.

SPEOIFIGA'IION forming part of Letters Patent No. 453,112, dated May 26,1891.

Application filed June 2'7,I 1890- Serial No. 357,009, (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES EDWARD OR- LOFF HAGER, a citizen of theDominion of Canada, residing at Hagersville, in the county of Haldimandand Province of Ontario,have invented a new and useful Machine for theMoistening of Postage-Stamps, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a new and rapid mechanical device for themoistening of postal and other gummed stamps which require moisturebefore they will adhere to the articles unto which they are to be fixed,thus substituting a machine-moistener for the ordinary method ofmoistening with the tongue. I attain this object by the mechanismillustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which the figure is aperspective drawing showing the position and uses of the different materials used.

A is a water-tight metal box.

B are twelve metal rollers, two and onefourth inches by one-eighth inch,pinioned at either end.

0 is an ordinary sponge.

D are holes in box A, one-sixteenth of an inch from the top of box.

E are pinioned ends of rollers 13, which are represented as protrudingthrough holes D.

As will be seen in the figure, the rollers B are placed side by sideacross the narrow of box A, close together, but not touchingeach other,and coming well forward to front end of box A. The sponge O is placedbeneath rollers B, filling the space between rollers B and bottom of boxA. Water is then poured into box A until the sponge is thoroughlysaturated, and the box remains halffull of water. The stamp to bemoistened is then drawn horizontally across the upper surface of therollers, causing them to turn, when the moisture is taken from thesponge by the rollers and deposited on the gummed side of the stamp,moistening it sufficiently to make it adhere to the article for which itis intended, thus doing away with the present practice of moisteningwith the tongue.

I claim- As a new article of manufacture, the device for moisteningpostage and other stamps, consisting of a rectangular receptacle havingan open upper surface and pro vided with a series of rollers journaledin the upper part thereof, and a spongeheld in said receptacle andprojecting under said rollers, substantially as described, for thepurpose set forth.

Hagersville, June 25, 1890.

CHARLES EDWARD ORLOFF lIAGEl t.

In presence of- FREDERIC JAMES HAGER, SAMUEL BEALEY HARRISON.

